Table 3 Correlation coefficients between study variables
Child’s gender | Having siblings | Parental age | Parental’s education level | Monthly family income | Presence of symptoms/chief complaints | Presence of dental caries | parent’s oral health knowledge score | parent’s oral health attitude score | Age at first dental visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Child’s gender | 1.00 | |||||||||
Having siblings | 0.070 | 1.00 | ||||||||
Parental age | 0.104 | 0.078 | 1.00 | |||||||
Parental’s education level | − 0.051 | − 0.042 | 0.273** | 1.00 | ||||||
Monthly family income | 0.067 | − 0.077 | 0.245** | 469** | 1.00 | |||||
Presence of symptoms/chief complaints | − 0.024 | 0.094 | − 0.051 | − 0.124* | − 0.163** | 1.00 | ||||
Presence of dental caries | 0.024 | 0.195** | − 0.040 | − 0.160** | − 0.258** | 0.401** | 1.00 | |||
Parent’s oral health knowledge score | − 0.026 | − 0.094 | -0.038 | 0.246** | 0.212** | − 0.017 | -0.099 | 1.00 | ||
Parent’s oral health attitude score | 0.030 | − 0.007 | 0.053 | 0.255** | 0.251** | − 0.126* | − 0.186** | 0.391** | 1.00 | |
Age at first dental visit | 0.009 | 0.116* | 0.253** | − 0.093 | − 0.039 | 0.279** | 0.374** | − 0.093 | − 0.388** | 1.00 |
** p-value < 0.01, * p-value < 0.05 | ||||||||||